ATLANTA — Oh, Siri, now we really know you. The woman behind that comforting and helpful voice on millions of U.S. iPhones and iPads has been revealed by CNN as Susan Bennett, a voice actress who lives outside Atlanta.

Bennett told CNN she started the journey as Siri’s voice in 2005, two years before the first iPhone was introduced, offering text-to-speech recordings for four hours a day.

She said the process of recording the voice that would later become Siri wasn’t just answering a string of questions, but rather speaking words and phrases that could be mixed together.

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